frost_jewel | 16. [voiced]

16. [voiced]

[It’s been a long few days since the Kin’corrans went “home”; Mia doesn’t remember most of them. Since the 31st she’s been, for the most part, sound asleep in the battledome clinic, trying to recover from…well, everything. Dealing with the fire didn’t help, leaving her spent and dehydrated and coughing. The time she’s spent awake, though, convinced her that things in the village were getting back to normal.

So her first mission of the day, after waking and sorting herself out, is to find something to do that will alleviate this boredom and, just perhaps, help make her case for just going home to lie about there instead.]

I know it has been very difficult and busy in the village just recently. Given the date, it will only stay busy. If it is at all possible, though, I would ask a small favor: would anyone be willing to bring a few books from the library to the battle dome clinic? I promise to return them at the first opportunity. …Once I’m done with them, that is.

While I am thinking about it…well, I would not mind a little company either. I want to hear that everyone is all right.

[Missing out on more than a day always leaves her too disoriented for her liking.]

[[ooc: ~~We interrupt the delicious intro train to bring you~~ If you work in the clinic and would like to have that argument about going home, step right up! She's a patient woman.]]

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[On the contrary, that is often the best time to worry. It happens so often that way.]

I was just exhausted. I'm much better now, really.

[Come sit down or she will get up and make you. She's not confined to that bed, just to the clinic in general.]

[... Fine, he'll come over and take a seat. But if Mia starts with the healing stuff he's going to insist she stops. That would definitely not be considered resting.]

Sure, you say you're much better but you're here resting up anyway.

[There, he's sitting. Now stop worrying.]

I'm waiting for the chance to negotiate leaving. Please do not worry.

[She's trying to remember if Caius can see Psynergy or not. Hmm. There are always other options.]

[Sneaky enough to try to heal someone without their knowing, not sneaky enough to leave the clinic. Wow Mia. If she tries it he won't be able to see it, but don't think he won't notice the pain disappear!]

Like I'm not going to worry. If you need to ask one of the guys here if you can leave then I can tell them you want to go home for you.

[Watch out, he has first aid lessons under his belt. He knows when people are fit and ready to leave the clinic okay!]

[Isn't she one of the ones who handled those lessons?]

There's no reason to interrupt anyone, as long as I'm not taking up space that we need for someone else.

[That, he would notice. Hum. Her second solution is to ask Fizz to fix him up for her. That he will see, as a watery spray of blue light, before he feels it.]

[Yes. Yes she did. But that doesn't mean anything!]

You're not taking up space if you need to rest- [What are you doing stop that. That really isn't resting, is it? Stupid blue light.] Maybe you are just taking up space if you're trying to heal me when you're meant to be resting up.

Oh, that wasn't me at all. [Here, let's show him. A small blue creature appears on the bed beside her.] It was him.

[Blink. What is that. It looks creepy with that claw/stinger/whatever that is on its tail.]

That thing can heal people too? [Leaning in to take a closer look now!] I didn't know you had a pet.

That is a Djinni. He isn't really a pet...though I guess in some ways they are similar.

[Explaining how they work has never been her strong point. Fizz disappears.]

Helping with healing is what he does best, so I asked him if he wouldn't mind.

[Djinni, huh... Hey wait a second.]

If you have something like that with you then why didn't you ask your Djinni to take care of you? [...] And you didn't have to ask him for anything, I said I was fine when I first came in.

Because Fizz is best at healing injuries, and I really don't have any. ...And I've been asleep.

[The rest of that, Caius? Please. Of course she had to ask.]

[But he's stubborn and those injuries were totally manly okay. They didn't need any healing at all!]

Better than you? [Could he heal up gunshot wounds huh?!] Wait, I still don't know how you ended up here in the first place. I asked why you were here before and you just said you wanted to go home.

He is centuries older than I am and has had a lot of time to practice. [And he could do a lot for a gunshot wound without the power issue. In fact he helped her then, too.]

There was a fire. I wore myself out trying to help.

Oh, huh. Guess that means he's way more experienced then you when it comes to this sort of thing. [He might've noticed his help if he weren't bleeding out and avoiding bullets at the time, but alas.]

-A fire?! You shouldn't exhaust yourself trying to help out like that, it's dangerous! [Fires are dangerous. Obvious stated.] What if you got burned or something like that?

I have the ability to create water, Caius. I'm one of the best choices for fighting a drought fire. [Said without any sense of self-importance. Water puts out fire, like rock crushes scissors.] And I could heal my own burns, if they happened. I was well out of the way of any flames.

[Huff. Well he can't really think of a way to come back to that. Water beats fire, plus Mia does the whole healing thing.]

You shouldn't throw yourself in there to help out just because you're a good choice. It's reckless and stupid! [HAH.] I mean... You must've done a good job, but there's no need to get yourself so tired that you need to rest up like this.

[Reckless and stupid. To an extent, she supposes. This pleasant smile hides what she might feel about the things he says.]

Thank you for being so worried.

I'm not that worried! There must be plenty of other people who are just as worried anyway!

[Pfft.] I didn't think I'd get this worried over a fire. [Yeah, the fire. Not you Mia, the fire. That's it.]

[Mia tries to keep her sigh to herself. No matter what she says, she can't seem to stop Caius from being upset and vocal about his disagreements. So she will try the next best thing she can think of.]

Is there something else you would like to talk about?

Something else? Huh...

[A few things come to mind, but nothing that he thinks Mia would enjoy talking about too. His mind is still on this fire business.]

It's starting to get colder. [Oh gosh, small talk.] Maybe it'll snow again, when it gets cold enough.

I hope so. I miss the snow, especially when it gets very warm.

Me too! When I first came here there was snow all over. I didn't have any time to enjoy it though.

[Stupid cold. Stupid Malnosso and their stupid white pants. Bah.]

Let's enjoy it this year, then. Do you know how to skate?

No, I've never even heard of skate before now. Is it fun? [Never even heard of 'skate'. What is sport, how do.]

Yes! It is a little bit difficult to learn at first, but once you can balance it's great. But you need a frozen lake with thick enough ice...or the rooms on the other side of this building, I suppose.

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